The Internet Crime Complaint Center has issued reports over the past 26 years that detail the types of crimes reported involving the use of the internet. Despite the sense that crime is random and unpredictable, the author finds that is not the case and, in this article, sets forth the commonalities missed. Read Part I here. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reports did not first encounter cryptocurrency as a mature asset class. Cryptocurrency appeared as a warning sign, denoted with a simple “various payments” summary as a payment mechanism for ransomware and later appearing inside other crime types. Long…
